Lover of travel, in general, and Asia in particular, Jean-Luc Coatalem takes us with Pyongyang cold noodles in the most closed country in the world, North Korea. The author knows what to expect but the reality he will discover even beyond his worst forebodings. "Should we laugh or cry?" he asked himself in the last line of the book. To describe this grotesque country, paranoid and folded on itself, eventually chose Coatalem humor, it is not possible otherwise, with its limitations, as he can not hide his confusion, helplessness and anger at this "jail open "what North Korea. The writer program that pretends to be a responsible tourism agency, and one that accompanies it, is rigid, contact with the "real" population impossible any attempt to think outside the box colliding the refusal of their guides, who wear as much of inhabitants, Kim's surname. Despite paste cardboard sets and pseudo tourist attractions, impossible not to see the real state of the devastated country, which oozes fear and where there is a terrible famine. And everywhere this devotion to the great helmsmen of the nation, died and legendary or power. Besides North Korea King Jong-il (deceased since writing the book and replaced by his son), Orwell's 1984 is like a holiday camp. Who benefits Kim? Despite the talent of Coatalem to track down the comical and ridicule, despite literary beautiful vistas towards Melville or Larbaud (read is the only way for visitors to not go crazy), it's a thrill to terror that runs through the spine by devouring those cold noodles in Pyongyang. Akin to terror.
